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Wynton Marsalis Is Focus as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Opens Season
For the opening of the 2023-’24 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center did something it hasn’t done for a long time, if ever: It invited certain correspondents to attend the sound check at 4:30 p.m. at Rose Hall. Keep reading »
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A euphoric evening led by Wynton Masalis
When Wynton Marsalis’s début album appeared on CBS Records in 1982, with its moody, pensive black and white cover portrait of the then twenty-year-old trumpeter, few could have predicted where his career was headed. Sure, he had performed Hayden’s Trumpet Concerto with the New Orleans Philharmonic at fourteen, and further honed his craft in the trumpet chair of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Keep reading »
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2023-24 Season Opener: “Beyond Black Codes” on Sept. 21-23, and Blue Engine Records Re-Issues 5 Wynton Marsalis Albums
The world premiere of Beyond Black Codes featuring big band arrangements of songs from Wynton Marsalis’s highly influential small group albums will open Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season on Sept. 21-23, 2023, at 8:00pm in Rose Theater. Keep reading »
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Musician Wynton Marsalis: A good fortune
Wynton Marsalis jumps onto our Zoom call and introduces himself before proceeding to play the trumpet. “I was just playing the trumpet call,” he says. “That was just for you.” Keep reading »
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An evening (and morning) with one of jazz’s all time greats
Can a trumpet actually sing? Can a jazz orchestra really speak to you? If the trumpet is played by and the orchestra is led by Wynton Marsalis, then the answers to both questions are a profound yes. Keep reading »
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Jazz giant plans to stir up a storm in Canberra
Few musicians on the world stage occupy a position of such responsibility as Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music and still the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year – he was just 22 at the time. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Pays Homage to Three of America’s Most Influential Jazz Artists - Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs its last show of the 2022-23 concert season with a performance that pays homage to three of America’s most influential figures in jazz Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Paquito D’Rivera Perform World Premiere of Elio Villafranca and Edmar Castañedas’ “Tres Aguas & Colors of Colombia”
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) presents the world premiere of Tres Aguas & Colors of Colombia—new works commissioned by JALC created by global jazz composers Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca (Tres Aguas) and Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda (Colors of Colombia), and brought to life by The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guest Paquito d’Rivera in Rose Theater on April 14-15 at 8pmET. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Lew Tabackin Perform the Music of Toshiko Akiyoshi
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and master tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin will celebrate the magisterial legacy of composer and pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi who the National Women’s History Museum says, “changed the face of jazz music over her sixty-year career. Keep reading »
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Middle East Meets West by Way of Jazz
If you don’t know what an oud is, you will by the end of the show, Wynton Marsalis said to a young audience member at the start of the performance. Oud virtuoso Naseer Shamma fronted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Thursday night at the Marcus Performing Arts Center for a program titled “Middle East Meditations.” Keep reading »
